If we do wrong and no harm comes of it, we are not thereby justified. If we did evil and good came of it, the evil would be just as evil. It is not the result of the action, but the action itself which God weighs.

It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.

The world will never be converted to God unitl Christians cry less and laugh and sing more.

If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!

We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.

Backsliders begin with dusty Bibles and end with filthy garments.

The angels must often be astonished at us and think we are the strangest creatures that well can be, yet they love us, and therefore they take a great interest in that Gospel that promotes our highest good.